Village home where the extended family may live together.
A very proud turkey
Across the street from the guest house there is a field where this ferris wheel comes every so often, part by part, on top of a bicycle or cart. The cost is 5 rupees ($.10) for 3 turns of the wheel.
The cows wander freely through the streets, nibbling garbage, trees, and bushes. They meander back home when it's time for milking.
Or they are led
A fresh lime drink vendor with his colorful sugar cane press waits for some business.
A mother with child-the dark mark on the baby is to ward off the evil eye.
Goats also roam freely through the streets.
The hospital is only a block from the guest house. This blue building which is mostly covered by trees is the free hospital, where 2/3 of the patients are treated for free.
Across the street is the new out patient building for paying patients, behind that is the research building, and behind that is the building that trains people around the world how to follow the Aravind model.
This is the original hospital built 30 years ago. Each floor was added as they could gather enough money to pay for it. Now it is the largest eye hospital in the world.
Although India's economy is booming and the Aravind model is world class in efficiency, technology, research, the art of medicine, compassion, and business-there is still much that is needed to be done in India. These sewer pipes line many streets, we have seen no work being done to install them and even then there is no waste water treatment plant here. There are more cell phones in India than toilets.
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